[chbot] Power monitoring

[Andrew Errington]

No details I'm afraid.  I know that it is possible on some meters, but the
specific implementation is left as an exercise for the reader.

Here's a starting point.  Google is, of course, your friend, although he
tends to be a little evasive at times.
https://www.domoticaforum.eu/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=7489&start=0

Andrew


On 12 January 2017 at 09:43, Volker Kuhlmann <list0570 at paradise.net.nz>
wrote:

> On Thu 12 Jan 2017 13:11:04 NZDT +1300, Andrew Errington wrote:
>
> > For monitoring the whole house you have three options:
>
> > 2) photocell on your electric meter counting the pulses from the power
> > consumption LED found on most meter front panels.  The advantage of this
> is
> > that it's cheap, non-contact, and entirely digital.
>
> The even bigger advantage is that it is exactly as accurate as the power
> company is billing you for!!
>
> > 3) data communication with the meter.  Some meters have an IR data port,
> or
> > a plug-in data port.  You could establish a connection to the meter and
> > query it occasionally to get consumption data.
>
> Very cool. Tech details...??? Probably wouldn't help me much though, I
> have an arc invovation piece of junk that the power company had to send
> some joker out for to connect a display unit to, just so I could read
> the day and night consumption... Hmm, might be a UART connection. I
> should hook into that and see if the data format is obvious (not holding
> my breath).
>
> Volker
>
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